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Nintendo amazes me.
[ Posted by Dan on January 07, 2003 | 3 Comments ]

In my short life I have bought...

a Nintendo
a Super Nintendo
a Nintendo 64
a Gameboy Advance
a Gamecube

Those last two items can talk to each other, and that will likely make me buy more software titles from Nintendo, just to see it work. To do that, I'll need to buy the aforementioned software and then add in some more hardware to get the Gameboy to read these trading cards that have old school Nintendo games on them. Unbelievable!

One of the true values in the Nintendo universe is the immediacy of the experience. The Gamecube boots in a few seconds, and requires little effort to get a game going. To go play a round of Tribes2 I have to boot my PC (over a minute, and quite likely to complain about something) and then dial in, then start the game (and if that game is Unreal Tournament, that load time feels like days), then connect to the master server, select a game server, then wait for the map load, and then play. sprinkle in random modem drops, or game server drops, and the value gotten from the process drops like a stone.

Back to the Gamecube. It boots quick, plays games well and has good software titles that can be found no where else. For a vidiot game junkie like myself, that's a compelling feature set. Nevermind the Gameboy Advance/Gamecube integration.

Also, I'll be buying the new Gameboy Advance SP as soon as it comes out. Damn you Nintendo.

You didn't have an "original" GameBoy? Ever?

Man, the batteries on that baby lasted forever.

-Posted by Joe Grossberg on January 7, 2003 11:11 AM

Your "Recent Posts" tab/javascript thing breaks under Safari. Probably it's fault anyway. Just a friendly FYI!
:)

-Posted by Quinn MacDonald on January 7, 2003 03:42 PM

I know, I tested that as soon as I got Safari downloaded. As soon as I heard that Safari was kde/khtml based, the old feelings of supporting too many browsers surfaced again (read: rage). (Also, my dhtml code for the recent posts is sort of old and crappy).

I had high hopes that Chimera would be the iBrowser I have suggested Apple should make. Unfortunately, they had to go with yet another renderer, no doubt with many of its own quirks, annoyances, and unpredicatable behaviors. I hoped Gecko would be the core of Safari, because, imho, it's the only viable competitor to Windows Browsing Hegemony (WBH for short, hehe).

IMX 2.0 doesn't use any DHTML, but Safari doesn't like the completely valiadating and non-weird code I have wirrten. It seems as there are iframe problems in Safari, and I plan on submitting a bug. In the meantime, I've got to get back to my 17" Powerbook oogling.

oggle oggle.

-Posted by Dan on January 7, 2003 07:07 PM

Comment posting has been turned off because I don't have enough time and will to deal with the constant comment spamming. I'm very sorry and will fix this sometime soon (soon = before 2004 ends).